Reuters reports that a Russian scientist has surrendered eight containers filled with after keeping it in his garage for eight years:
Leonid Grigorov found the 14 ounces of plutonium-238 in a heap of rubbish at his laboratory near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, Itar-Tass news agency said.
Interfax news agency said the lab, looted after the Soviet collapse in 1991, was eventually closed and deserted.
According to Reuters, plutonium-238 is normally used to generate heat but, if mixed with other materials, could be used to make a "dirty bomb,." Plutonium-238 is much more radioactive than plutonium-239, a radio-isotope normally used in atomic bombs.
The good news is that the plutonium was tuned in. It really worries me that Plutonium is just laying around waiting for the evil doers to find it. We have to more to ensure such material is not available to those who would use it against us.
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